The Five Frankfurters

The Five Frankfurters
Directed by	Erich Schönfelder
Written by	Max Monato Carl Rössler (play)
Music by	Heinz Giessen
Cinematography	Hans Bloch
Production company	Viktoria-Film
Distributed by	Viktoria-Film
Release dates	5 October 1922
Country	Germany
Language	Silent German intertitles

The Five Frankfurters (German:Die fünf Frankfurter) is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Erich Schönfelder.^[1] It was based on a play of the same title about the rise of the Rothschild family.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Rudi Feld and Robert Neppach.

Cast

In alphabetical order

• Else Bäck as Selma
• Karl Beckersachs as Herzog vom Taunus
• Ernst Behmer as Rat Ysel
• Arthur Bergen as Karl Rothschild
• Rita Burg as Charlotte
• Josefine Dora as Rosa
• Karl Etlinger as Bankier Nathanson
• Maria Forescu as Frau Nathanson
• Max Grünberg as Heinrich Heine
• Alfred Haase as Graf Fehrenbach
• Ludwig Hartau
• Leonhard Haskel as Maier Amschel Rothschild jun.
• Guido Herzfeld as Salomon Rothschild
• Fritz Hirsch as Maier Amschel Rothschild sen.
• Boris Michailow as Jacob Rothschild
• Sophie Pagay as Frau Schnapper
• Albert Patry as Graf Stadion
• Albert Paulig
• Ernst Pittschau as Wellington
• Karl Platen as Samuel
• Emil Rameau as Friscard
• Frida Richard as Gudula
• Gerhard Ritterband
• Berthold Rose as Baruch Schnapper
• Karl Rückert as Der Domprobst
• Robert Scholz as Kaiser Franz I.
• Fritz Schulz as Bleichröder
• Hermine Sterler as Gräfin Stadion
• Heinz Stieda as Der Kurfürst von Hessen
• Frau Ulmann as Rahel
• Hermann Vallentin
• Karl Weinschenk as Rossini
• Heinrich Zahdor as Nathan Rothschild

References

1. Freisburger p.28

Bibliography

• Walther Freisburger. Theater im Film: eine Untersuchung über die Grundzüge und Wandlungen in den Beziehungen zwischen Theater und Film. Lechte, 1936.

External links

• The Five Frankfurters at the Internet Movie Database